24 DECEMBER 1831

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE event of the week was one of the earliest that distinguished it—the Division of the House of Commons, at one o'clock on Sun- day morning. All men knew that the Bill must...

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The Spanish General TORRIJOS, and some forty or fifty of

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his companions, have fallen into the hands of the Beloved King, and will doubtless experience that tender mercy of which FERDINAND is so proverbially lavish towards all the...

Eitin - itr anti Vrocrarino in parTiammt.

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ADJOURNED DEBATE ON THE REFORM BILL. The House of Com, mons met on Saturday last at twelve o'clock, and continued in debate. till half an hour after midnight. The discussion was...

On the subject of the expedition to Portugal, Don PEDRO'S

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friends preserve a praiseworthy silence ; and in consequence, no- thing is known either of its extent or of its destination. The ap- prehension of it still serves to keep alive...

We mentioned last week, that the King of Holland had

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refused to accept that part of the treaty of the twenty-four articles which guarantees to Belgium freedom of navigation in the rivers and certain canals of Holland. A long and...

The French journals speak of the trade of Lyons as

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resuming its wanted coum!. The manufactures at Rouen are also again moving slowly forward.

Letters from the Polish frontiers give a melancholy picture of

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the state of the country. Such is the suspicious terror of the conquerors, that, not content with disarming the peasantry, they have ordered them to give up their scythes, axes,...

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LIST OF TIIE MAJORITY ON TIIE SECOND READING OF TIIE

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REFORM BILL. ENGLAND AND WALES. Adeane, H. 3.—Cambridge County Althorp, Viscount—Northampton County Anson, Sir G.—Lichfield Anson, Hon. G.—Great Yarmouth Astley, Sir...

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Cate.

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TIIE KING is as well as his Reforming subjects could wish him : for his Non-Reforming subjects, we believe the news which, in their excess of loyalty, they most ardently pray...

tbc fartrOpaTil.

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LONDON is busy with the important preparations for Christmas. Shall we be thought to sermonize, if we ask our readers, at this season of general joy and rejoicing," in...

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ness presented to us as the country offers at this

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moment. The political meetings are over. The turns-out have turned in. The Unions meet J. Lowe (professor at the King's College, and ex-editor of the Courier); and dispute not....

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TITHE FIGHT NEAR KILKENNY.

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THE following, from the Kilkenny Journal of Saturday, is a more particular account of the murder of the Policemen, which we noticed in the second edition of our last Number....

POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SCOTLAND.

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THE following account of the great meeting of the county of Perth, to which we alluded in our last Number, is given by a correspondent of the Neu , North Briton.—" The meeting...

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Application has been made on behalf of William Hill, porter

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of the Dissecting-room at King's College, to Lord Melbourne, for the reward offered on conviction of the murderers Bishop . and Williams. [It ought to be given to somebody ; but...

THE POLICE OFFICES.

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A very young gentleman, who called himself Sir Jonathan Crompton, and who wore the uniform of a Naval Captain, complained at Marl- borough Street, on Monday, of being assaulted...

Two libel cases, arising out of one small subject, were

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tried yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas. On the 7th June last, a person named Deacon gave Captain Thomas Garth a box in the ear, and a sound horsewhipping, for writing, as...

TRIAL OF TIIE EARL OF MAR, FOR SHOOTING AT A

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CLERGYMAN. IT may be remembered, that this trial was to have come on at Perth some time ago, and that, in consequence of the word "felonious" being in the indictment, and its...

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THE KING OF THE FRENCH AND THE DUKE OF BOURBON'S

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WILL. A surr.of nullity of the will of the late Duke de Bourbon—who, it may be recollected, died in rather a mysterious way shortly after the Revo- lution of July last...

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ft . rall talL THE GREAT AMENDMENT.—The Duke of Wellington continues to

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Improve.—Morning Chronicle. Lord Anglesey was compelled to return to town from the seat of Sir Richard Levinge, in consequence of an unusually severe attack of his afflicting...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 17th inst. in Portman Square, the Countess of CHICHESTER, of a daughter. On time 17th inst. at the Banger's Lodge, Oxfordshire, Lady GRANVILLE SOMERSET, of a...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, December 20.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Si. and I. Burms, Castle Street, Leicester Square, plumbers-TS-MATTE and BLAKEY, Halifax, woollen-drapers-JARROLD and Co. proprietors of the " New...

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STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS.—A Parliamentary return has been printed, of the

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newspaper stamps issued in W30; why not in 1831? or at least to the latest date possible of the-latter year ? We notice the document, however, 'chiefly to point out the...

ON PITS.

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The largest of the Boroughmongers is occupied in barricading his house in Pall Mall. The window-shutters are very formidable. His - Grace may spire his pains ; the public have...

Some of the French Journals indulged in great latitude of

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remark on the character of the King, as it is represented in the pleadings of the ' pending trial of the validity of the Duke of BOURBON'S will. Three of them have been seized...

Letters from Gibraltar, which arrived this morning, give a different

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version of the disaster of TORRIJOS from that previously received. They say he made a regular descent between the Rock and Malaga; but be and his friends were immediately...

The Caledonian Mercury gives the following extracts from a letter

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written by Sir Walter Scott subsequent to his arrival at Malta. "Per- haps you will be glad to hear how we have progressed since we became inhabitants of the waters. We have...

POSTSCRIPT.

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A REFORM QUESTION, BY A COUNTRY OBSERVER.

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Strati. we have Reform, or shall we not? Clearly, by the present Ministry we shall not have any further Reform than Lords WHARN- CLIFFE and HARROWBY choose to allow us. The...

(IRAtts SUPPLEMENT.—The corrected edition of the SPECTATOR'S ANATOMY OF THE

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PEKRAon will be given as a Supplemental Sheet with our next Number-183. No charge will be made for this Supplemental Number; in which, in addition to all that has hitherto...

PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.

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THE returns of last Saturday were rather unsatisfactory. Those that have arrived since are of a more consoling kind. The number of cases at Sunderland is now reduced to seven....

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MAJORITY. IN another column, the names of the majority and minority on the second reading of the Reform Bill are printed. A glance at the respective lists will settle in...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols closed on Saturday evening precisely as they did that day sennight-831 4; Exchequer Bills closed 4s. to 6s. premium. The Funds remained...

• THE MAGNIFICENT UNPAID.

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• ON the 27th September last, in a debate on the story of Mr. DEACLE and his wife, Lord ALTH ORP, in allusion to a comparison which had been introduced between the state of...

• EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Irt, Hoodless, from Liverpool to Calcutta, has put back, after being out sixteen days, having encountered very heavy gales. Arrived. At Gravesend, Dec. 21st, Eliza, Groves,...

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UNIONS.

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A CASE of magisterial interference, to prevent the formation of one of these societies, calls for a remark or two. It appears that a Mr. RICHARD ILES and some of his fellow...

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THE COURT OF ALDERMEN AND THE WARD OF PORTSOKEN.

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WE observe, in the Oxford Herald, a paragraph intimating that it is the intention of the Court of Aldermen to receive the member for Oxford, Mr. HUGHES HUGHES, as the choice of...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY. The Modern Sabbath Examined. 1 vol. Sto Ithittaker and Co. FICTION, The Robber. By the Author of" Chartley." 3 vols. Bull. MEDICINE, The Pestilential...

• LORDS AND COMMONS.

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• Tuts is the title of a new comedy, by Mrs. GORE, which has been represented in the course of the week at Drury Lane Theatre. Mrs. GORE is the authoress of several...

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THE ROBBER.

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THIS is a tale by the author of Chartley ; in which, however, we can detect no traces of the author of that peculiar story. We were much disappointed, on opening his present...

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COPLAND ON CHOLERA.

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DR. COPLAND has published a little compact work on Pestilential Cholera, which may be called the Choleric Ency - clopmdia. It is a history of the origin of the disorder, its...

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PICTURES AND ARTISTS.

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Oen portfolio this week is pregnant with novelties. The close of the year is marked by the birth of two new graphic candidates for public favour, and by the maturity of a most...

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON OUR TABLE.

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I. We are glad to have received the Life of the Great FRE- DERICK of Prussia, by Lord DOVER. It appears impartially and perspicuously written. The new materials which he has had...

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Beauties of Neukomm, No. I. By J. MOSCHELES.

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We have before noticed Mr. MOSCHELES'S propensity to convert any popular air into a fantasia for the pianoforte. It is an employment wholly beneath his talents, and ought to be...

Les Deux Amis ; a Duet for the Pianoforte. By

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M. HUMMEL. Here we recognize the hand of a man who writes not merely for profit. This duet has all the delightful characteristics of the school of which HummEt is so...

Comic Offerings, No. I. The Words selected from the Annual

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of that title; the Music by J. BLEW1TT. BLEWITT is one of the best of our comic composers : indeed, it is only necessary to see and hear him giving effect to one of his own...

NEW MUSIC.

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Original Songs, Nos. I. and II. Composed by a Lady. This, the most elegant specimen of musical notation and its embel- lishment that we have had occasion to notice, is...

Italian Air," Benedetto sia la madre ;" Arranged, with Variations

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for the Pianoforte, by J. B. CRAMER. • This well-known air has been made the theme of six variations, bearing the marks of Mr. CRAMER'S elegant taste and intimate know- ledge...